Door-fastener.



.11. KAPPELB.` 1 DOOR FASTENERL v APPLIoATIoN FILED 11111.21, 1911. 986,465. Patented Mar. 14, 1 911.

HENRY KAPPELE, 0F STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT.

DOOR-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 21, 1911.

Patented Mar. 14, 1911.

Serial No. 603,830.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY KAPPELE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stamford, county of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Iniproved Door-Fastener, of' which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a fastener of novel construction, more particularly intended for freight car doors, though it may also be used for barn doors, and similar devices.

The fastener is so constructed that it is not liable to become accidentally opened by vibrations of the car and that it may readily secure the car against pilfering.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a front elevation of a door fastener embodying my invention; Fig. 2 a plan thereof, showing the door and frame in section.; Fig. 3 a vertical section on line 3-2-3, Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a horizontal section on line 4 4, Fig. 1.

To the door 10, is secured by bolts 11, a socketed plate 12 having an integral upper stop 18 and an integral rear stop 14. The hasp 15 is fulcrumed to plate 12 by a rearwardly extendin stud 16 that enters a `central aperture o? the plate and carries aI washer 17, received within the socket 18 thereof. The pivot connection between plate and hasp is such, that the latter may not only be oscillated in a plane parallel to door 10 and plate 12, but may be tilted at an acute angle thereto. The free end of hasp 15 terminates in a nger piece 19, and is provided back of such finger piece with a lower forwardly extending integral flange 20. Above such flange there is formed in the hasp an elongated slot 21, said slot also extending into the fiange a's indicated at 21a Figs. 2 and 3.

To the door frame 22 is secured a keeper` comprising a plate 23 which is bolted to the frame as at 24. The keeper is provided with an integral hook 25 and with a forwardly extending apertured lug 26, below said hook. Hook 25 is adapted to engage slot 21 of hasp 15, while flange 20 is adapted to become seated on lug 26 when the hook is in engagement with said slot.4 Thus when a wire 27 is passed through the apertures ends as at 28, the fastener cannot be opened, so that the door becomes effectively locked.

To open the fastener, the seal is broken, hasp 15 is by finger piece 19 first swung upward until it strikes stop 13, then tilted slightly forward to clear the keeper, and is finally dropped. Thus in the open position of the fastener, the hasp will remain suspended from plate 12, any undue oscillation of the hasp in this position being prevented by stop 14.

It will be seen that my fastener is of simple construction, is not liable to become accidentally released by any jarring motion, and that it may be effectively locked against unauthorized opening.

I claim:

1. A door fastener comprising a slotted hasp having a slotted fiange, a keeper having a hook adapted to engage the slot and an apertured lug adapted to support the flange.

2. A door fastener comprising a has having a forwardly project-ing flange, a slbt extending from the hasp into said flange, a keeper having a hook adapted to engage the hasp-slot, and an apertured lug adapted to support the flange.

3. A door fastener comprising a plate, a hasp hinged thereto and tiltable in parallelism therewith and also at an acute angle thereto, said hasp being provided with a fiange and with a slot extending from the hasp into said flange, a keeper having a. hook adapted to engage the hasp-slot and an apertured lug adapted to support the flange.

4. A door fastener comprising a socketed plate having an upper stop and a rear stop, a hasp having a rearwardly extending stud that enters the plate, a washer on the hasp within the plate-socket, said hasp being provided with a flange and with a slot ext-ending from the hasp into said flange, a keeper having a hook adapted to engage the haspslot, and an apertured lug adapted to support the flange.

HENRY KAPPELE. wWitnesses:

FRANK v. BRIESEN, KATHERYNE KOCH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, IJ. C.

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